The Delta independent., 1887-04-26
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.
President Cleveland Said to Have No De-
sirc for q Second Term.

President Cleveland Said to Have No De-
sirc for 4 Second Term.
A special from Washington to the
st. Louis Republican gives the following
rather startling Information:
L"President Cleveland neither wishes nor
will he accept a denomination. This will
be startling information to the cou,tfy and
set at rest all Important questions of sec
ond term which are now the subject of in.
terested consideration in political circles
everywhere. The correspondent of the
Republican has the highest possible author
ity for the statement however, anti 1t eah
be depended upon rs strictly and entirely
true. 1t comes from the President himself,
who made it to a prominent Democratic
Senator from one of the Western States
who is on terms OF especial intimacy at the
White House.
THE President spoke with so much delib-
crate earnestness and such studied empha-
sis that the Senator with whom he talked is
certain that there is no reason to question
his perfect and entire sincerity. His man
ner, no less than his words. indicated that
the declaration was simply the decision of
firm resolution which had resulted from
careful consideration of all phases of the
matter.
1.-THE President said he had not given
any intimation of his feelings to the repre-
sentatives of the press for the simple rea-
son that he felt that nothing which he
mi ght say about not wishing nor being will
ing to take second term y.ouId be believed.
| 4 hardly expect anybody to believe it, he
said, except my wife, but it is so none the
less.'
Continuing, he added; Everything do
every appointment make, they think it is
to secure reelection. On the contrary, |
am counting the days that remain until my
release from office, just as if l were prs-
oner in confinement
apparently to make it plain that he had
taken no half-hearted resolution the presi-
dent proceeded to speak of the exacting and
laborious duties which fall to the incumbent
of the Presidential office when the functions
of the Presidency are administered with the
scrupulous and minute faithfulness which
he has brought to the position.
No man, he said, could. endure the strain
of such labor, at once physical and mental,
for longer period than four years without
the risk of permanent injury to his health.
For these reasons he could not think of
continuance of his term beyond the four
years which he has now half completed
Nothing, he said to his Senatorial visitor.
would persuade him to alter this resolution
which he had deliberately formed. He did
not favor second term and he did not be-
lieve there were any obligations of public
duty which could require him to foregO his
personal wishes.
"The Senator who repeated this signfi-
cant conversation to his friends says that
while the President was not talking for the
purpose of getting his views about a C.
election before the public, there was no in
timation that he desired his words to be re-
garded as confidential
The Senator has spoken freely of the in
terview to his personal friends without any
injunction of secrecy, and it is not unlikely
that this private discussion of the matter
will eventually provoke some formal and
public utterance by the President. The
Senator is quite sure there was none of the
coy strategy of the artful politician, who
thinks by this device TO appear as being
sought for rather than seeking Office
sin this disavowal of the second-te
ambition by President Cleveland, he is con-
vinced that every word Is meant for just
what it implies, and that is will be wholly
useless to plan the next campaign on a basis
of the denomination of Cleveland.
1.-The President was specific and decided
in saying that he could not be induced by
any possible consideration to change his
mind, that there was nothing in the way of
argument which could be brought to
bear to alter his resolution, which was de-
termined alike by every consideration of
personal comfort and happiness, and by a
most conscientious regard for what could
fairly be asked of him as q patriotic servant
of the people.